Author Guest Post: A Renovation Adventure Okay, okay…as you can tell I normally don’t do guest blogs because other than write and take my kids to school—I have no life. Lol. I guess you can call the mom syndrome. Plus with the pandemic, I don’t leave the house. Even girlsContinue Reading
My Review: Perhaps it was my years as an Internal Auditor but it was obvious at first acquaintance which character at the bank was the bad guy. Be suspicious, very suspicious, of bank employees living beyond their means by way of unverified lottery winnings. However, I only suspected he wasContinue Reading
Character Interview Interview with Fish Out of Water’s Deputy Sheriff Trent Walker How long have you been a Deputy Sheriff? I became a sheriff right after I graduated from Arkansas State University. So I reckon it’s been nearly six years now. Time sure flies, don’t it? What do you think ofContinue Reading
My Review At Suzanne, Petra and Toni’s restaurant, the Cackleberry Club, everyone feels as at home as I do whenever I read one of the books in this series. In Egg Shooters, Suzanne is bringing a meal of chili and cornbread to her fiancé Dr. Sam at the hospital. Suddenly,Continue Reading
Author Guest Post Chocolate, Community Coffee and Involuntary Autobiographical Memory If you’ve met me for five minutes, you probably know I’m really into coffee. I have an espresso machine at my house, and the first thing I do when I travel (pre COVID, and hopefully again someday soon!) is toContinue Reading
My Review What mystery fan wouldn’t want to go on a Mystery Lovers Tour around England? Though you may have to rethink that decision when the tour owner is found dead. It really is A Tourist’s Guide to Murder but in a completely unexpected way. Sam runs a mystery bookshopContinue Reading
My Review The Broken Spine is the start of a new cozy mystery series about a librarian. Whoever has heard of a bookless library? Not me. But apparently the first one opened in real life in 2014. Trudell is the assistant librarian at a small rural southern library. A newContinue Reading
About Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork Murder Can Haunt Your Handiwork (A Haunted Craft Fair Mystery) Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Publisher: Kensington (December 29, 2020) Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages ISBN-10: 1496721659 ISBN-13: 978-1496721655 Digital ASIN: B086R8YGLD A Gilded Age ghost helps psychic painter Celeste Cabot catch a killerContinue Reading
Author Guest Post CHANGE HAPPENS How I ever managed to write Wedding Bear Blues during 2020 was a true miracle. But it all began in 2019, with hopes that 2020 would lead to new beginnings and memories. Sometimes you get what you wish for, but in the wrong way. AfterContinue Reading
Author’s Character Guest Post My name is Nuala O’Flaherty. I arrived in America from Ireland a little more than a year before Meg. We met at a placement agency. My last employer had passed away and I was looking for another position. Meg was looking for her first placement. WeContinue Reading
My Review With a name like Fab, he has to be an Italian womanizer. But now he’s dead. He either fell or was pushed from the roof of his apartment. Were his romantic entanglements Grounds for Murder? After being laid off her high-powered Miami journalist job and divorcing her two-timingContinue Reading
My Review Cassie and Lacy are orphaned sisters who have a special talent. They are bibliomancers, able to tell the future through books. They are also the owners of Books by Bequest, a bookstore within their lighthouse home on the Oregon coast. One day, nineteen-year-old Cassie has had enough. SheContinue Reading
My Review Library Manager Amy and dancer Richard are getting married! However, a pre-wedding reception at art gallery owner Kurt’s house is tragically interrupted when Kurt’s rival art collector, Oscar, is found murdered in the yard. Intrepid amateur detectives Amy and her best friend and library employee Sunny, of course,Continue Reading
My Review Emily has been searching for the perfect house for months. She finally finds it with the supposedly haunted Victorian, Hadley House. Unfortunately, a television flipping show wants it too. With a large budget and chutzpah to spare, how can Pemberton on Property fail to win? Meanwhile, Emily’s businessContinue Reading
My Review Ding, dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? Odious Enid, I said. Enid is the owner of a resort and spa in beautiful Spirit Canyon, South Dakota. But Enid is anything but nice. She offers new hotel owner, Beth, $20,000 in cash to close up on theContinue Reading
Kate Atherton’s idyllic retirement is going well…if you don’t count the two murders, the mysterious drone, and her photographer friend who manages to poke a hornet’s nest of criminal activity, that is. Nestled in the scenic Texas Hill Country, the cozy town of Wheaton Creek seemed to Kate Atherton anContinue Reading